Syrian President Bashar Assad has given the approval to expend chemical weapons to rout the last remaining stronghold of insurgents in his country,in the city of Idlib. According to The Hill, approximately 70000 opposition fighters remain in Idlib, or U.N. officials are concerned that an offensive could cause hundreds of thousands of people to be displaced in an area that is already overrun with refugees. Fox News states that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried to convince Assad’s allies in Russia and Iran to accept a ceasefire at a trilateral summit last week,but neither Russian President Vladimir Putin nor Iranian President Hassan Rouhani would accept his terms. In fact, Putin stated that he wished to see a “total annihilation of terrorists in Syria” and Rouhani echoed his statement with a call for “cleansing the Idlib region of terrorists.” Both men were referring to the remaining opposition fighters.
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Source: inquisitr.com